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Last week the Navy described its version of the gadget that is stealing the test pilot's job. The cockpit of the plane to be tested is crammed with instruments and radio equipment. Part of the gear controls the plane engine, flight controls, landing gear, etc., by radio signals. The rest, by radio and television, reports the plane's performance in the air, and does it more completely than any pilot could...
When things get too stuffy, this modern chronicler has only to shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...
...Storm. After that, the tiny vessel sailed south to the 20th degree of latitude, headed west before the warm trade winds. For five weeks the women & children sunbathed on the deck, the men lounged, bare-armed, in the cockpit. Then, on Nov. 27, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, the Erma ran into a freezing westerly gale. She was assailed by storm after storm. Sledging seas sent water spraying through her leaking cabin ports. Everything-clothes, shoes, blankets, bulkheads-grew wet with sea water. It was bitter cold...
...lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead. Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed, and the plane screams down to earth, no life is lost. The records of the flight survive the crash...
...machine consisting of a gunner's cockpit placed in front of a movie screen which simulates aerial dogfighting so well that seasoned veterans have crawled out of it dripping sweat...